Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 2006/02

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Jupiter?
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 11:44:16 -0500

Correct on the Evette built by Jupiter in 1983 or so. It was actually a better version. Their were reasons why Buffet did not, in my opinion, get a better grip on the market with them. Later Buffet shifted student production to their own facilities and furnished, I think, a grossly inferior product.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2006 7:54 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Jupiter?
>
>Like all start-ups, they have gotten better. I recently tried a Jupiter
>Top-of their-line Clarinet and it was pretty darn near as good as any
>of the big boys. They used to (maybe they still do) make saxes for
>Buffet (the Evette, if I remember correctly, is a Jupiter) and I am
>very impressed with their pro horns. I think they are closing in on
>Yamaha.
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>
>Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
>Ebony and Ivory Duo
>On Feb 13, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Lacy, Edwin wrote:
>
>> Can someone please bring me up to date on the current situation with
>> Jupiter instruments? At one time they had the reputation of being good
>> examples of the worst in instrument manufacture. As I understand it,
>> they were at first made in the Czech Republic, and then in China.
>>
>> I'm interested in knowing about their saxophones as well as clarinets.
>>
>> Ed Lacy
>> University of Evansville
>>
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